"These are remarkable figures in the unemployment rate, depending on people who don't finish high school are at 14.8 percent; with high school, 9.3 percent; with some college, 7.4 percent; college degree, 4.4 percent."
"You can't tell someone who has lost their job 'Hey, we've seen some good increases in consumer confidence.' That's not going to help them."
"I was actually just talking to Senator McCain about Asia, China, Japan and Vietnam."
"we're going to be working on health care reform this year, and if we're able to bring some costs down and make it more affordable and do it in a different way, do you think that would help people with..."
"I always like to bring this up, because I don't think people think about this as much as they should."
"There are reasons for some optimism regarding the state of our economy."
"Consumer spending did rise 2.2 percent on an annualized basis in the last quarter."
"Just to summarize, there were 611,000 jobs lost in the private sector last month, is that right?"
"What would you say, just to summarize, have been the biggest areas of loss for the types of jobs across the country?"
"We need to get our act together here in terms of these financial regulations."
"Let us all remember that there are real people behind these statistics."